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(The last version of this, mostly written for comments in Balloon Juice. I think it is clearer and more concise than the three posts that ha...

I think Dancing Anarchist Party would be a cool name for a political party...or perhaps a dance club. (Thank you Emma Goldman.) The Islami...

The President is the only elected official which commands national media attention. Had Obama wanted to, he could have told the public: Th...

Continuing in the explication of objections to Obama on the left: Adequately address unemployment. Considering that the Obama administrati...

 I've been hearing this a lot and, since I don't want to spend the time writing some real posts, I'll post this bit of cranky fl...

About a month back, I wrote : "[Obama] does not seem capable of recognizing a policy failure, imagining a policy success, or understan...

Lots has already been said about it, for instance Krugman . I'd just like to add that if Obama keeps making large concessions to the ric...